AHF on YouTube   
headbody divider
In The News

Visit this section of the AHF Web site often for the latest on AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s efforts toward global AIDS treatment and advocacy.

Items 1 - 10 of 279  12345678910Next

Viewer Discretion

November 20, 2009
By: Trenton Straube

The “post-AIDS sexual revolution” is here! It’s happening right now, every Tuesday night on the new Melrose Place. That’s according to the show’s executive director Todd Slavkin. Read More...

Blair Underwood ‘HIV Care at Its Best’ Campaign Highlights AHF’s Quality

November 17, 2009

Actor Blair Underwood has been spotted all over Hollywood these days and not just on the red carpet. The longtime AIDS activist can be seen at intersections all over the city—or his likeness can, anyway—praising the quality of the care found at all twelve AHF Healthcare Centers in the greater Los Angeles area. Read More...

That’s So Gay: Promoting HIV awareness

November 16, 2009
By: Daniel Batalla

I was surprisingly calm considering I had never had an HIV test before. I didn’t think I had anything to worry about, but on the drive to get tested, I couldn’t help but wonder. Read More...

Medical Test Manufacturer Donates 4,500 HIV Test Kits For The World AIDS Day 2009 Testing Millions Global Campaign

November 16, 2009
By: Chembio Diagnostics, Inc.

Chembio Diagnostics, Inc., a NY-based company that develops, manufactures, licenses and markets proprietary rapid diagnostic tests, is donating more than 4,500 rapid HIV test kits to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's 2009 Testing Millions Global Campaign, based in Los Angeles, to commemorate World AIDS Day 2009 on December 1st. Read More...

Blair Underwood Brings Star Power, Attention to AIDS

November 16, 2009
By: Ben Koconis

Although there was no Red Carpet, paparazzi or stylist on hand, a Hollywood celebrity visited the District’s powerful K Street corridor in Northwest earlier this fall to bring attention to a scourge that threatens to overtake the city. Read More...

Bull’s Eye: AHF’s “No Judgemental Bullsh*t” HIV Testing Campaign Hits the Mark

November 12, 2009

Never look a bull in the eye. That’s lifesaving advice if you are toreador in the ring at Seville. But if you are a driver in Los Angeles, looking into a bull’s eye just might be the thing that saves your life—or the life of someone you love. Read More...

AHF: California Sued for Singling Out Safety Net Providers for Drastic Cuts while Favoring Rite Aid, CVS Chains

November 10, 2009

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has filed a federal lawsuit against David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) seeking an injunction to prevent implementation of a new state law singling out nonprofit safety net providers—including AHF—forcing drastic Medi-Cal (Medicaid) reimbursements cuts for drugs purchased by AHF clinics and other safety net providers while favoring giant national for-profit pharmacy chains including Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens and others. The lawsuit was filed yesterday, Monday November 9th, in United States District Court, Central District of California, Western Division (Case number CV-09-08199-R-PLAx). Read More...

ABC’s Nightline covers AHF’s push for condoms in porn 11:35pm - ABC stations nationwide

November 5, 2009
By: LISA LING and ARASH GHADISHAH

Performer who passed HIV to co-stars now advocates mandatory condom use in porn. Darren James once led a busy life as a porn star. "Sometimes it'd be 10 women in an orgy scene -- nonstop," he said, talking about his career at its busiest. "And you work from eight in the morning to maybe eight at night. And that's one scene. All these women. Nonstop." Read More...

Spotlight: AHF In Ukraine

November 4, 2009

AHF has worked in Ukraine since 2004, when it began a preceptorship training project funded by the Global Fund. In collaboration with Samara and Saratov Health Care Administrations and American International Health Alliance, AHF formed the Volga River Alliance Project. In November 2008, AHF established an outpatient clinic in Odessa, a seaport city with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Ukraine. The clinic currently cares for more than 500 clients.

Read More...

DC AIDS Scandal Spurs AHF to Call for Congressional Investigation

November 2, 2009

Recent Washington Post Articles Detail Widespread Mismanagement and Corruption in District of Columbia Health Department's HIV/AIDS Administration; Millions May Have Been Misspent and Remain Unaccounted For as the District Copes with Highest AIDS Rate in the Nation Read More...

Items 1 - 10 of 279  12345678910Next

If you’re a member of the media, contact our press liaisons to arrange an interview or for further information.  Click here for press contacts.

Footer Image
©2008. AIDS Healthcare Foundation. All Rights Reserved.